The Democratic symbol, is traced to an 1837 caricature of President Andrew Jackson seated on a donkey titled, "The Modern Balaam and his Ass." "In the early days, political symbols were flexible.

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The Donkey of Democracy antedates the Republican Elephant by more than four years. It was in the issue of Harper's Weekly for Jan. 15, 1870, that the long-eared animal dropped off the tip of Nast ...

Not to kick a donkey while it’s down, but a new poll from Quinnipiac University published last Wednesday shows the modern Democratic Party more unpopular than ever. With the second Trump ...

In his 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion,” Nast used the donkey to represent divisions within the Democratic Party. Over time, the donkey evolved into an ...

But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18, 1870 cartoon, shown above — “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” — that popularized the symbol.

Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with both of them — he introduced the donkey first, on Jan. 19, 1870: 155 years ago Sunday.

This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties. | getarchive.net ...

The symbols tied to the Republican and Democratic parties (the elephant and donkey) have actually been around for more than 100 years. ... 14 Political Cartoons That Prove Humor Is a Bipartisan Issue.